Features

GUI with menus Automatically numbered headings, titles, and paragraphs, with table of contents Text is laid out according to standard typographic rules, including indents, spacing, and hyphenation Support for right-to-left languages like Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew, including support for bi-directional text Support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Basic support, as of LyX 2.0, for the XeTeX and LuaTeX typesetting systems Standard operations like cut/paste, spell-checking Notes Textclasses and templates similar to the \documentclass{theclass} command in LaTeX BibTeX Support Table Editor (WYSIWYG) Math Editor (WYSIWYG) Ability to import various common text formats Screenshot of PDF document created with LyX Ability to natively export the document to DocBook SGML, XHTML and plain text SVN-support for collaboration. And others – see detailed list.